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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1884
Page
2
A long list of brief notices features Benjamin Boville of the Light Brigade, aged centenarians, a Belfast diary keeper, a Baltimore jailer celebrating birthdays, Mackay sapphires valued at 300000 dollars, and anecdotes including a witty flood tale from Louisville. The items span obituaries, veteran recollections, and social curiosities.
A collage of humorous quotes and social observation from 19th century papers. Jokes on letters and postscript etiquette, a clerk’s reply about shoe blacking, marriage notice mishaps, playful spins on dialects, and a Baltimore Sun commentary on women’s fashion influence.
An Oregonian reporter learns a Chinese quail is the small bird in a cage at Malarkey's market. About twenty five dozen cousins arrived on the last steamer from China. The birds are about half the size of our mountain quail in shape and lighter in color. They are valued by the Chinese as a delicacy and for the male plumage.
The Providence based treasurer of a long standing manufacturing firm agreed to a settlement proposal from representatives of a bankrupt business. He said the policy has always been to accept the first offer presented for settlement, a stance that surprised observers.
A majestic Indian elephant, bearer of the royal ensign for the Poona host, stands unmoving after its mahout falls. Wounded and silent, the elephant keeps the flag aloft as Mahrattas rally around it. After three days it leads the Mahout's son away, recalling the driver’s authority.
An enthusiastic artist seeks fame and riches by reckless risk, painting a wave as it engulfs him. The piece warns that ambition untethered from Christian restraint corrupts character, mirroring broader social flaws in trade, politics, and ecclesiastical life.
Alligator hunters at Sabine Pass prepare to launch the new season in spring. They head out in boats armed with Winchesters hooks and fire-pans for the work ahead.
A reporter summarizes African American and Southern beliefs surrounding omens and signs. It covers voodoo, conjurors, death omens from a crowing hen, frogs and toads in conjuration, jack o lanterns as ghosts, frost pictures foretelling fate, and omens from coons and possums signaling death or crops.
A broad collection notes charity aid in Britain, a Ga two year old who recites the alphabet, school book publishers earning eight million annually, and a Freehold NJ benefactor leaving seventy thousand dollars to evangelical societies. It reports a tobacco school ban petition in Connecticut and minor courtroom anecdotes. It also covers beet root culture, new factory starts, diphtheria deaths in Kharkov, and political figures like John Wyman and Arthur Peel. Superstitions about birds, omens, and winter thunder close the piece.
A train engineer recalls a near disaster in fog and a mis-set switch on a straight stretch into Illinois. The switch opened by road workers sent the locomotive toward a sidetrack and destruction, but the crew survived. he resigned afterward and never steered an engine again.
James Lafford a 45 year old Passaic New Jersey veteran of the late war and Irish born man who moved his mother into his home died by self inflicted gunshot after stressing over a deed to his wife that his relatives warned would take his property He left a note explaining his death and an epitaph praising his service to the United States and his homeland Magie Harte Benicia Cal is named in a letter left with his sister.
A fisherman describes freezing a buffalo fish and reviving it in water after days out of water. He recalls betting with a rival and recounts keeping fish alive by freezing, insisting it requires rapid freezing and no self-freezing.
Before his death the German liberal leader Herr Lasker visited Los Angeles and lauded the United States as a leading world power. He criticized American forest waste and the state of roads, urging conservation and European road standards as prudent preparations for the future. Los Angeles Herald report.
A World reporter notes the bureau of vital statistics catalogs extraordinary births including twins and rare monstrosities. He recalls cases of four legs two bodies with one head and wormlike or animal features, some exhibited in museums or traveling shows, while others died shortly after birth.
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